%0 Journal Article %T MULTIDRUG RESISTANT MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS IN ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA %A Ezekiel Olugbenga Akinkunmi %A Nusirat Omotayo Omisore %J Archive of "African Journal of Infectious Diseases". %D 2019 %R 10.21010/ajid.v13i1.5 %X There is a need to have regular updates from regions where high burden of tuberculosis (TB) have been reported in order to assist the local and global bodies in their objective to curtail the spread of drug resistant TB (DRTB). This study presents a situation report of DRTB in Adamawa State which has been identified as one of the States with high burden of TB in Nigeria %K MDRTB %K Rifampicin resistance %K Adamawa State %K GeneXpert MTB/Rif %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6305078/